Presenting films by artists and filmmakers who saw National Service - such as Bruce Lacey - this programme highlights the brutality and dark absurdity that many artists saw behind the political rhetoric of the post-war decades. It blurs the boundaries between art, experimental, amateur and Free Cinema filmmaking and invites speculation as to the impact that these people's military experiences had on their films and the peace and psychedelic movements that followed.

Introduced by William Fowler, Curator of Artists' Moving Image, BFI National Archive